Alexandra Hunt said she’s never been a very political person.
“I’m opinionated and driven, but I don’t really cater to making everyone happy,” Hunt said. “I kind of tell things how it is.”
But recently, Hunt launched her 2022 campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s third congressional district, which covers Center City, West and Northwest Philadelphia. She’s running as a Democrat and is aiming to unseat Democratic congressman Dwight Evans in next year’s primary election. Evans, a former longtime Pennsylvania rep, has been a U.S. congressman since 2016.
The move has her stepping in line with millennials across the country, who are flocking to public office in recent years. A report from August 2020 showed that 236 candidates who ran for Congress in November 2020’s election were millennials, a 266% increase since 2018.
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